Mr Timothy Hyman
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 1998
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
The Wingate award I received in 1998 was towards a long cherished project – to write a book about the painters of 14th and 15th century Siena. Since I am a painter and have always worked and lived unsalaried and without any academic backing, I did very much need your help to complete my journeys in Europe and America, seeing (in some cases, seeing again) these beloved pictures. Eventually Thames and Hudson did bring out my ‘Sienese Painting: The Art of a City-Republic’, in 2003. It has been warmly received, is still in print and selling and is about to be translated into French. My own work as a painter was, in my view, helped rather than diverted, by this labour of love. Since 2000, I’ve had four solo shows and have also been exhibiting widely both in Britain and abroad. Much of my work is- like the Sienese – about my own city, which happens to be London. I did a kind of residency on the London Eye (much of this was exhibited at the Museum of London in 2004)
There’s more to say but mainly I want to say, thank you for help at a very difficult time in my life. It made a big contribution.
My brother, Anthony Hyman was also a Wingate Scholar (1991) and he died in 1999. SOAS hold an annual 'Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture'.